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Caprimulgnis ambiguus, Ilartert. 

 (Plate I. ag. 4.) 



Caprininlffus macrurus, Oates ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. 



p. 4o'(189U); Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 537, part. (18i)2) ; 



Blanf. Fauna Brit, hid.. Birds, iii. p. 189, part. (1895) ; Butler, 



Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. p. 423 (1899). 

 Ciiprimulfrus ambiguus, Hartert, This, 1896, p. 373 ; Sharpe, Hand-L ii. 



p. 87 (1900). 



The eggs of the ilalay Nightjar resemble those of C. macrurus, 

 but the grouud is rather darker in colour and in some cases tinged 

 with piuk. They measure from 1-13 to 1-26 in length, and from 

 ■&5 to -92 in breadth. 



2. Tenasserim, loth March. Hume Coll. 



'2. Tliotinpyin Kiver, Tenasserim, loth Hume Coll. 



March (('. T. Binqham). 

 2. ThuuuiiYin River, i8th March 



(CT. B.). 

 2. Thoungvin Kiver, 19th April 



_ (V. f. B.). 

 2. Kossoom, Malay Peninsula, 29th 



April. 



2. Salang, Malav Peninsula, 2otli 



March. 



3. Singapore, 18th Dec. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume C..11. 

 Hume Coll. 

 H. N. Kidley, Esq. [P.]. 



Caprimulgus albinotatus, Tick. 

 (Plat* I. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Caprimultru' albinotatus, Beavan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 375 ; Gates ed. Hume, 

 Nests ^- Eqgs hul. Birds, iii. p. 43 (1890) : Hartert, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. x\i. p. 510 (1892) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 87 ( 1900). 



Caprimulgus macrurus, ajmd Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 188, 

 part. (1895). 



The eggs of the Bengal Nightjar are of three types. In one the 

 eggs resemble those of C. macrurus. In another they also resemble 

 the eggs of C. macrurus, but they have the ground-colour decidedly 

 tinged with saimon-pink. In a third type the ground-colour is 

 greyish white, and this is finely spotted and blotched with lavender- 

 grey and very pale brown, closely resembling the common type of 

 the egg of 6'. eitropceus. Specimens measure from l^l to 1-3 in 

 length, and from "88 to "92 in breadth. 



1. Dhurumsala, Kashmir, 31st jNIarch Ilume Coll. 



1. 



( C. B. Cuck). 

 Kot;jurh, Iliiualavas, loth May. 

 Musfoori, 19th April {T. Huff on). 

 Mussoon ( T. H.). 

 .Terripani, Mussoori [T. H.). 

 Kumaon. 



Sikbim Terai, 14th April. 

 Maunbhooni, Bengal i^B. C, Beavan) 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman GoU. 



